For those who subscribe to Old House Journal, Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 257 may be the Echo Park renovation project for you. The Mediterranean/Spanish Colonial Revival residence, designed by architect John Victor Macka at 817 – 821 N. Glendale Blvd., hit the market this week at $1,100,000. Built in 1937, the 3 bedroom, 2 […]

In 1914, when Echo Park was known as Edendale and Red Cars on the Pacific Electric Railway were the mode du jour, residents used public stairways (and their glutes) to access the 1-bedroom cottage cabins on Loma Vista Place. Edendale movie studios, for silent film-making, proliferated on the four-block stretch of Allesandro, between Berkeley and […]

Only 1 unit remains in an Echo Park condo complex of 4, completely rehabbed by non-profit organization Enterprise Home Ownership Partners (EHOP), with down-payment assistance from the City of L.A. and the Los Angeles Housing Department up to $90,000 for eligible Buyers. Built in 1915, the quadruplex underwent an extensive condo conversion, replete with lead-abatement […]

The Echo Park urban landscape, courtesy of Greg Steinberg and Alexandra Becket of ModOp Design, welcomes a new addition tomorrow: 2220 Reservoir Street. After several home restorations in Silver Lake and Highland Park, the married duo took on a project in Echo Park, a neglected, stuccoed 1922 duplex north of Sunset Blvd. and west of Alvarado. […]